Category: Gardening

  • Protected: My Tree at Night from a Different Window, by C Murray

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

  • Five Women Who Loved Love, by Ihara Saikaku.

    I have given up on an irritating verbal exercise about the uses of river pebbles and gone back to my book : Five Women Who Loved Love , by Ihara Saikaku ( 1642- 93). So glad that it came into my hands in the last couple of nights, given its dark comedy and use of morality tales that…

  • Reposting Excerpts from ‘Tula’ by Leo Tolstoy.

    There have been some difficulties with this post, which is companion to Simone Weil‘s Necessity and to Edith Sitwell‘s The Wind’s Bastinado. Both the above poems were transcribed from a small  library in Mayo, the original Tula was removed earlier today, this is an edited version. Leo Tolstoy: Essays from Tula, with an introduction by Nicolas Berdyaev. London, Sheppard Press,…

  • ‘The Philosopher and the Birds’ By Richard Murphy

    Leave some flowers at Rosroe for Richard Murphy RIP.  Irish Times 30/31 January 2018 In Memory of Wittgenstein at Rosroe A solitary invalid in a fuchsia garden Where time’s rain eroded the root since Eden, He became for a tenebrous epoch the stone. Here wisdom surrendered the don’s gown Choosing for Cambridge, two deck chairs,…

  • ‘The Brightest Jewel’ by E. Charles Nelson and Dr. Eileen Mc Cracken

    1998 saw the bicentennial of our National Botanic Gardens, which started my first cycle of poems and images, some of which I exhibited in a group show called Ramus (Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin). The gardens flourish with two of the houses now restored to their former glory, the Curvilinear Range and the Palm House; distinguished by the lolling cat, the…